News Items during December 2016

'This award is an acknowledgement of many years of financial support and commitment by the Presentation Sisters in Ireland, the dedication of the iScoil Executive Team and Mentors, Board Directors and Members, says Sr Ann Marie Quinn PBVM, iScoil Company Director.

Sisters Joanna Bruno, PBVM, San Francisco, and Elizabeth Remily, PBVM, Aberdeen traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation, scene of a sustained protest by indigenous people and water protectors against the laying of the Dakota Access Pipeline, designed to transport as many as 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline would travel underneath the Missouri River, the primary drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux, a tribe of around 10,000 people. Read their fascinating account of their adventure ...